For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 13, 2022

There’s old Elly Patterson. All she does is sit around listening to those bottles.

every parent wishes that, am I right?

We have tapes. If only there was a way to listen to them

People had been making videos of their children for decades before this comic originally came out.

Have you not learned. You have to allow for windage.

Needs to contact Mr. Croce and see if the two of them can work something out.Like • Reply

I understand you very well ma’am, and you’re right!

Enough energy in those giggles and shrieks to power a city.

When the dogs are slurping us here (I call it being schnozzled) we giggle in an elderly fashion. It still feels the same and the dogs absolutely love it!

sigh Baby giggles-the best tonic for a bad day there is!

You can probably find Baby Giggles on YouTube.

Next week: Six days of April shrieking while chasing a grasshopper..

Elly might as well keep her dirty diapers forever—they’ll last longer!! LMAO!!

It’s sad so many commenters here feel the need to be snarky about one of the loveliest strips in the series.

A good giggle is worth 2 guffaws and a fist full of snorts. We should all be blessed with at least one giggle a day.

Good morning Lynn, Your great, love you, Jim

When the kids grow up, then you have giggling grandchildren.

Baby belly laughs are better.

I remember the old Pepsi commercial where the little boy is laughing and giggling out of control on the ground while a bunch of puppies are jumping all over him. I love that commercial.

A lot of fluff!

With thanks to Jim Croce

If I could save time in a bottle

The first thing that I’d like to do

Is to save every day till eternity passes away

Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever

If words could make wishes come true

I’d save every day like a treasure and then

Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do, once you find them

I’ve looked around enough to know

That you’re the one I want to go through time with

If I had a box just for wishes

And dreams that had never come true

The box would be empty, except for the memory of how

They were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do, once you find them

I’ve looked around enough to know

That you’re the one I want to go through the time with

I know that feeling Elly

Best sound in the world!

You will remember how fun they are, when you have grandchildren/great-grandchildren(14/1, so far).

Late children are special. The other kids are much older.

Yes, those giggles turn into teenage whining

So do Jim and Marian feel that way about “Baby Elly”?

Bill Watterson had a way of flipping the script, although he could do it without resorting to sarcasm or snark.

Calvin: “I want a horsey ride.”

Dad: “Calvin, we have a lot of chores to get done today and not much time to relax.”

Calvin: “You know Dad, I am going to grow up soon enough. You will look back and say where has the time gone, Calvin is so big. I remember a time when he was so small I could give him horsey rides. But those days will be gone forever.”

Last panel. Dad has Calvin on his shoulders

Dad{annoyed}: “I think I have worked through my potential guilt now.”

There are a lot of Jim Croce comments. Needless to say, everyone is thinking of his song:

Bad, bad, Leroy Brown.

Baddest man in the whole dum town.

Badder than old King Kong.

Meaner than a junkyard dog.

The strip needs to be updated, but Jim Croce references can still be made. Due to Trudeaunomics, the Pattersons are poorer. They will be singing “I Got a Name”.

I don’t think there is a nicer sound in the world than a baby laughing. YouTube can be a wonderful thing sometimes.

Giggles!!! I remember them at whenever I look at my children’s and my grandchildren’s pictures. A treasured memory!

When I was in grammar school us boys liked to swim up to the girls underwater and pinch their legs. Girls squealing and jumping out of the water…I wish I could keep that forever.

I still remember the first time my baby laughed. Now he is 46 . . .

April is so cute when she’s happy!

Ever heard of a tape recorder?

Truer words were never spoken, Elly.❤️

Well, you have phone video cameras now to capture thr precious moments.